I am now using two terms that, when Googled, are new and new in my form of usage. Pro commerce and second voice.
Pro-commerce is obvious but what is not obvious is that I am standing on a mountain top shouting that I am pro-commerce. Few others, maybe none, are calling themselves pro-commerce. I'm not left or right, I'm not automatically on one side of free trade or gay marriage arguments. I am pro commerce. Many others are pro commerce and it is time to be proud of who we are. We need caps, t-shirts and bumper stickers everywhere. Proclaim 'pro-commerce' to the world.
The world has had people who are openly
anti-commerce for thousands of years. Jesus was adamantly
anti-commerce and so was Mohamed. The Catholic Church was
anti-commerce and still is; the socialists, the communists and the Left are
anti-commerce.
The world has not had strong, public, verbal and adamant pro commerce spokespeople before. It is time for us to be heard.
The
second voice, is the voice that was never fully heard before the 1980s. We heard pro-free market, anti-totalitarianism, we heard pro status quo and we heard Milton Friedman on free choice.
The second voice is new. The second voice is the coherent explication of the benefits of commerce. The second voice is pro commerce. The second voice loves meritocracy, decentralized markets and global trade. Commerce is the human cornucopia.
Now there are two meaningful sides to contemporary life: pro commerce and anti-commerce. The fact that anti-commerce is losing every debate, every trial, every empirical test needs to be shouted from the roof tops. We who are pro commerce are the second voice.